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DBSTalk.com IS launching an exciting new interactive HD programming feature called "This Week in HD". We will highlight what's new and exciting in upcoming HD programming each week. While I will post many of my own picks, we will also draw from a variety of HD programming resources, including participating HDTV web sites, regular contributors and our own DBSTalkers, who are welcome and encouraged to post their HD programming finds.

As new HD channels launch and come on line, available new HD programming will also increase, but at a geometric rate. Each newly illuminated hi-def channel brings to your widescreen HDTV the potential of over 100 additional hours of new and unique HD programming each week.

From HD concerts, sporting events and recently released movies to HD specials, premieres, niche programming and live events, each week we scan the tv universe to bring you the latest in spectacular programming in beautiful and High Definition.

Remember, DBSTalkers are welcome and encouraged to post their HD finds.

WEEK OF JULY 12-18: We start out this week with contributions from our good friends at TVWEEK.com

HD programming picks for July 12-July 18 include "HBO World Championship Boxing", "The Blues Brothers" and "Like Water for Chocolate"

# "The Blues Brothers" (HD.net). Sunday, July 15, 5 p.m.: John Landis’ high-energy 1980 film, about two brothers who get their band back together to save the orphanage they grew up in, premieres in HD.

# "Like Water for Chocolate" (HD.net) Tuesday, July 17, 6:15 p.m.: The critically acclaimed Spanish-language film about a young girl in Mexico who uses her passion for food to get revenge on her mother, who refuses to let her marry.

Remember, "This Week in HD" is your QUICK STOP SPOT for the latest in new and unique HD programming!

(Ed. Note: HD programming listed in "This Week in HD" is not provider-specific and may not be available on all systems.)

Described by Roger Ebert as a "gentle family satire and a classicAmerican road movie," this uplifting 2006 Oscar®-winner chroniclesthe mishap-filled 700-mile journey-in a crumbling antique VW van-ofone wildly dysfunctional family. Their goal: to realize the dream of an highly optimistic little girl to participate in a children's beauty pageant.

HDNet is live tonight from historic Music City Motorplex, the .596-mile high-banked paved oval at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds in Nashville, for tonight's NASCAR Grand National Division Music City 150, part of the Busch East Series.

And stay tuned after the race for a great music night line-up, including True Music w/ Katie Daryl, Sound Off with Matt Pinfield, and a concert featuring the blistering country/rock of Cross Canadian Ragweed, recorded live in their own backyard at the famed Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa.

If you want to watch some really good baseball, catch the Little League World Series. It runs from August 17th-August 26th and is being broadcast on ESPN HD, ESPN2 HD and ABC HD.

We started watching them play several years ago and, trust me, it's a lot more fun than the majors! We liked it so much that this year we attended the Western and NorthWestern regionals in San Bernardino and had a great time.

Anatomy of a Hurricane. It was on the local PBS station here in KC and will be on 12:30 a.m. CST on Wednesday. It is also scheduled to be on Saturday and Sunday. It's a 30-minute show and shows some incredible HD pix from the 2004 Hurricane season. I only caught the last five minutes, but I'm looking forward to seeing it again on the DVR. Since it's about hurricanes and I'm in KC, you can be assured it will be on other PBS stations.